Minor in TESL

Minor in Teaching English as a Second Language

The Program

The TESL minor program in the College of Humanities incorporates courses in Africana Studies, Anthropology, Asian American Studies, Central American Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Communication Studies, Education, English, Linguistics, Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, and Sociology. The objective is to provide introductory preparation for teaching English to speakers of other languages. Course substitutions may be made only with the written approval of the department chair.

Academic Advisement

Students in the TESL Minor should consult regularly with the undergraduate advisor.

Requirements for the Minor

1. Language Pedagogy (3 Units)

LING 330: Fundamentals of TESL

2. Language (9 Units)One course from (A), one course from (B) and one course from (C):

A. An Introduction to Language

ANTH 310 Language in Culture: Anthropological Linguistics (3)

ENGL 301 Language and Linguistics (3)

LING 300 Approaches to Linguistic Analysis (3)

B. The Structure of Language

ENGL 302 Introduction to Modern Grammar (3)

LING 403 Morphology (3)

LING 404 Syntax (3)

SPAN 497 Comparative Structure of Spanish and English (3)

C. Language Acquisition

LING 417 Language Development and Acquisition (3)

CHS 433 Language Acquisition of the Chicana/o and ESL Speakers (3)

AFRS 395 Bilingualism in the African American Community (3)

3. Language and Culture (9 units)One course from (A), one course from (B) and one course from (C):

A. Language and Culture

CHS 482 Languages of the Barrio (3)

ENGL 405 Language Differences and Language Change (3)

LING 427 Languages in Contact (3)

LING 441 Sociolinguistics (3)

SPAN 401 Language and Culture (3)

B. Cultural Studies

ANTH 152 Cultural and Human Behavior (3)

ANTH 305 Individual and Culture (3)

ANTH 345 Diversity in the United States (3)

ANTH 360 Immigration and Ethnicity (3)

COMS 356 Intercultural Communication (3)

SOC 305 Culture and Personality (3)

SOC 307 Ethnic Diversity in America (3)

C. Specific Cultures

AAS 100 Introduction to Asian American Studies (3)

AAS 350 Asian American Personality and Mental Health (3)

AAS 450 Asian American Child and the Schools (3)

ANTH 306 Native Peoples of North America (3)

ANTH 352 Peoples of South America (3)

ARMN 310 Armenian Culture (3)

ARMN 440 Armenian American Child (3)

CAS 100 Introduction to Central American Studies (3)

CAS 311 The Central American Diaspora (3)

CHS 100 Chicana/o Culture (3)

CHS 430 The Chicana/o Child (3)

CHS 431 The Chicana/o Adolescent (3)

CHS 470 Cultural Differences and the Chicana/o (3)

CHS 471 Chicana/o Families (3)

4. Writing (3 units)

ENGL 406 Advanced Expository Writing (3)

Description

Units

Total Units for the Minor in TESL

24

B.A. Student Learning Outcomes

Student Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the B.A. in Linguistics will:

Express what linguists mean by "knowing a human language" by demonstrating knowledge of such core fields as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.

Verbalize what is involved in the acquisition and development of language and discuss its biological and social foundations.

Describe key concepts from such fields as pragmatics, and discourse analysis and relate them to language data.

Verbalize how sociocultural diversity manifests itself in language using methods and concepts from the field of sociolinguistics.

Read, evaluate, and write effectively about linguistic topics.

Define the connections between linguistic study and its practical applications.